Google’s latest assault on Apple proves how far behind Siri really is

Author: Jack Morse / Source: Mashable

Siri has some catching up to do.

As the day-one Google I/O keynote came to a close Tuesday in Mountain View, California, it was clear that the tech giant had left the right impression on the developers in attendance: Specifically, one of awe.

Of particular note was the wide range of tasks handled by Google Assistant — tasks that, at present, Apple’s Siri could only dream of (could Siri dream).

Want Google Assistant to make a phone call for you? Perhaps book a haircut appointment by having an actual conversation with a real human? No problem, that feature was demoed today and will be available to users “as an experiment” in the coming weeks.

Google Assistant calling on someone’s behalf to make a haircut appoint is This is a real phone call #googleio pic.twitter.com/gPhfZJ4SiY

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And that’s not the only Assistant-related news that Google announced today.

“Thanks to our progress in language understanding, you’ll soon be able to have a natural back-and-forth conversation with the Google Assistant without repeating ‘Hey Google’ for each follow-up request,” explains a Google press release.

And it’s not like this…

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